Now that the dust has settled, who’s the king (or queen) of modern literature ?
Elizabeth Strout of course
>>24702556The problem of literature in the 21st century is that we still define it by the limitation of mediums from millennia agoDigital videos today should be considered literature just as much as visual arts or even experiencesIf we define things that way, then MrBeast has unironically fundamentally reshaped the world in more ways than any other author since Nietzsche
>>24702556Alberto Laiseca/thread
>>24702658No, you won’t destroy the sanctity of text, get out, shame on you.You can come back when you’ve left your evil ways.
>>24702676Text is nothing more than where symbols meet interpretation. An audio-visual work is as literary as a textual work given the right conditions and stimuli
>>24702682It’s a different medium. It’s the same as reading against listening to audiobooks. It’s a different medium, your brain is engaged differently. So no, text is not reducible to symbolise and interpretation.
>>24702729Academic LiteraturePoetic LiteratureHistorical LiteratureIf you believe in the distinct segregation of mediums through brain engagement, then you must also believe in the classification of textual literature by their functionalities: Reason, Imagination, Memory, etcMore interestingly, these sub-classifications have more in common with the brain engagement of videos serving the same purpose than other textual literature (e.g. a written poem is closer to the brain activations of a videogame concerning poetry than it is to a book of scientific treatises)
>>24702748That may be true. I’m still against the dissolution of form.Now, given our discussion.Who takes the crown in modern literature (no postmodernism)?
>>24702556Laurence Sterne.
>>24702789Came here to post this.
>>24702784MrBeast (his book is coming out in 2026)https://archive.org/details/how-to-succeed-at-mr-beast-production_20240813
>>24702812Got it. You at least got a laugh out of me.
